The difference between Crux and Meat
When used as nouns, crux means the basic, central, or essential point or feature, whereas meat means the flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
check bellow for the other definitions of Crux and Meat
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Crux as a noun:
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
Examples:
"The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished."
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Crux as a noun:
The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
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Crux as a noun:
A puzzle or difficulty.
Examples:
"rfquotek Dr. Sheridan"
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Crux as a noun (climbing):
The hardest point of a climb.
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Crux as a noun (heraldiccharge):
A cross on a coat of arms.
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Meat as a noun (uncountable):
The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food.
Examples:
"A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms."
"The homesteading teenager shot a deer to supply his family with wild meat for the winter."
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Meat as a noun (countable):
A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.
Examples:
"The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly."
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Meat as a noun (now, archaic, dialectal):
Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food. See also .
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Meat as a noun (now, rare):
A type of food, a dish.
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Meat as a noun (now, archaic):
A meal.
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Meat as a noun (uncountable):
Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.
Examples:
"The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm."
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Meat as a noun (slang):
A penis.
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Meat as a noun (colloquial):
The best or most substantial part of something.
Examples:
"We recruited him right from the meat of our competitor."
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Meat as a noun (sports):
The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).
Examples:
"He hit it right on the meat of the bat."
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Meat as a noun:
A meathead.
Examples:
"Throw it in here, meat."
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Meat as a noun (Australian Aboriginal):
A totem, or a clan or clansman which uses it.